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Old timer in Houston told me to grease the boom pins every single shift without fail
Back in 2018, a guy named Ray who ran a 90-ton Link-Belt told me to grease the boom pins every single shift without fail. I thought he was being over the top, you know, a little obsessive. But after I skipped a few days on a 60-day job near the ship channel and started hearing that squeak, I spent half a Saturday pulling pins and cleaning out dried up grease. Has anyone else had a veteran give them advice that seemed like overkill but ended up saving their backside?
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elizabethmason15d ago
That old timer wisdom about greasing pins has saved my bacon more times than I can count.
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victor77915d ago
Amen to that. Kept my old trailer rolling for years.
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hugoj1210d ago
Hate seeing a good trailer go to the scrap yard. @victor779 you definitely got your money's worth out of that old rig. I had a tandem axle that finally gave up the ghost last year, frame just couldn't take another summer hauling gravel. Miss that thing every time I have to rent something now.
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